Package: potamus Version: 0.10-1 Severity: normal When potamus is started from the GNOME menu or the Debian menu, the window just shows "No file. stopped" and there is no way of changing where potamus looks for music files within the GUI.
Starting potamus from the command-line is fine but then there are command-line tools that can play music from the command-line. It seems bizarre to have a GUI client that cannot be used when started as a GUI client. Even a simple File->Open dialog that allows a directory to be specified would be useful - or maybe some setting in a file so that users can specify the top level directory of the music collection. (Although with a large music collection, that could get tedious to find the desired tracks.) Users should be able to click on a button in potamus, select a directory (often a single album or single artist) and let potamus play those files. Maybe the Play button can be re-used to save adding another button, by allowing it to remain enabled instead of being greyed out. If no files are selected, Play could open a FileChooser dialog based on the home directory of the current user. As Play has already been selected, if appropriate music files are then found in the selected directory, playback could start immediately. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages potamus depends on: ii jackd 0.116.1-4 JACK Audio Connection Kit (server ii libao2 0.8.8-5 Cross Platform Audio Output Librar ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090420-2 ffmpeg codec library ii libavformat52 4:0.5+svn20090420-2 ffmpeg file format library ii libc6 2.9-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libflac8 1.2.1-1.2 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.2-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libjack0 0.116.1-4 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari ii libmad0 0.15.1b-4 MPEG audio decoder library ii libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.7-1 shared libraries for mod music bas ii libogg0 1.1.3-5 Ogg Bitstream Library ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-2 audio rate conversion library ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-5 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-5 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library potamus recommends no packages. potamus suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org